The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-31
LOOK TO YOUR DAUGHTERS

There is more in the unfortunate an
vile case which the last few days he
developed than will be thought of
most people. We refer TO the death {
the girl Cramer. It is not the frs
case that has come to light, nor will
be the last. It suggests the question
How far are others than the parties i'm
mediately concerned-the unfortunat
girl and her seducer-responsible TO
the disgrRceful and heartrending out
come? This affairs mentioned only
for the purpose of introducing othel
ideas that have been suggested BY
many, and that must have entered the
minds of thousands.
We have probably half as fair a pro-
portion of young and licentious black
guards in this city as are found else
where. Indifferent to the claims OF
society, devoid of principle and with
out characters that are considered
worth preserving, these things swarm
the streets at all hours looking for OPP
portunities to crafty their vile desires.
Take the principal street of this city
any fine Saturday evening and till
late in the night and note the
hundreds of young girls who march up
and down, again and again, smiling
here, staring there, winking in another
quarter and ogling everybody in
any way presentsble. 1t is
most likely that these girls
are innocent of any evil in
tent. the only thought being the en-
joyment which, for the time, the
pastime affords. But it is not so with
the men who also assemble to watch
these girls and make their acquaintance.
4 girl seen too often on the street, seen
to parade back and forth-as hundreds
dds set down as fast. and as such she
is noted by observers and accosted by
those with evil designs. No decent man
will accost lady on the street with a
view to making an acquaintance. No
girl with an ordinary degree of respect
for her sex or herself will submit to
being accosted on the street, nor will
she so act as to justify the suspicion
that she is DESTROYS of being accosted.
a lady will attract as little attention as
possible; and the modesty which is the
outgrowth of innate virtue is that which
marks the lady.
But are these thoughtless girls alone
to blame? They think no evil until
harm is brought to them under the
guise of pleasure. Are they on the
streets night after night and hour after
hour, with the consent of their parents
HaYe parents any idea how corrupting
are the influences to hich their daugh
tiers are subjected when parading the
streets? In how many homes have
hesrtaches and lasting shsmes been
brought because of the folly of youth and
theneglect and indifference of sge2 The
evil is a growing one and with its
growth there will be an increase in
premature graves, in broken hearts,
disgrace that are the portion of girl
once tempted when yielding. Every
girl who walks the streets to look at
Others and to be looked at by others puts
herself in the way of countless tempta-
tons. Every parent who permits his
daughter to go into the way of tempta-
ton will not be held ggiltless if she
fall; nor if she do not fall. Our indif-
ference often comes home with usury
that kills. It does so when it
brings eternal shame to a girl that
promised glorious motherhood. No
person has the promise otIthe Eternal
that shame will not come to him or his
The path that brought that peor girl
Cramer 10 a grave Of shame is in
many ways trodden to-day by hun
dreds. Who can say how many are
even now at the brink of the abyss
There are children so wayward that
the utmost caution of the parent is in
Sufficient TO keen them from doing
wrong; but how many fathers, how
many mothers, can rest in the serene
confidence that they have done all that
might be done to keep their offspring
from the path of temptation that leads
straight to the door of death? IT'S
well for those who are wrapped in the
mantle of contentment on this score;
but for the majority, there is much of
neglect.
Look to your children, parents! Keep
them from this accursed parading of
streets where theyiare the objects of vile
and lustful desires. Beware
lest they fall, and beware lest ye be not
held guiltless.
There is profound moral to the
death of the poor girl Cramer.